I recently heard a story about a public
speaker who didn’t know when to stop.
As the story went, the MC tried
everything he could think of to get the speaker from the stage, including
passing him a note, all to no avail. Eventually in desperation, he stood hidden
by the drapes at the back of the stage, and threw his gavel, hoping to hit the
speaker in the back and get his attention. However, he missed, and hit an old
lady in the front row, and knocked her out. When she came around, she gazed
dizzily up at the speaker still on the stage and said “Hit me again, I can still
hear his voice!”
I think most of us can relate. We’ve
all come across speakers, whether on stage or off, who love the sound of their
voices far too much.
Handwriting can alert you to the
talker. The most basic trait for this is seen in the circle letters, a, o, and
the circle part of g and d. When your mouth is closed, you can’t speak. When
the circle letters are closed, the writer is not inclined to speak. When your
mouth is open, you can speak – the “speaker” has open circle letters. The
phrase “big mouth” refers to someone who either cannot keep a secret or talks
too much. When all or almost all circle letters are wide open it shows someone
who talks incessantly.
However, it’s not just a matter of
whether or not one speaks. What one speaks about also is very important.
Writers with a loop on the right of their circles can keep secrets. They will
talk with discretion. Writers with a loop on the left side of their circles
don’t quite see the world as the rest of us do, they suffer from self deceit,
and it is their beliefs, correct or erroneous, that they transmit when they
speak.
And wide open circle letters with loops
on both sides? Well, if you couple intentional deceit, which is what the double
circle letters indicate, with too much talking, you have a con artist – someone
who is has the gift of the gab, and will not stick to the truth in what he
says. If this writer also has a far right slant, showing emotional
expressiveness, it may be quite easy to be taken in by him – or her.
There are many other traits to take into
consideration of course. It is never wise to base decisions on just a few
strokes, but perhaps two of the other ones to consider here would be loyalty and
sincerity. Sincerity as it shows in handwriting is loyalty plus honesty.
Honesty shows in circle letters with no loops, and loyalty in i-dots that are
just round dots, not slashes or drawn circles.
Two last traits that the speaker in the
above story must have had were arrogance, shown in inflated personal pronoun
“I”, very large signature, very tall t and d stems, and stubbornness shown in
the wide splayed angle at the base of a d or t.
So next time you hire a speaker for a
public event …. Check how talkative, how arrogant and how stubborn he is before
you give him free reign with your audience!
